How to format your references using the International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

1. James RD. Shape-memory alloys. Taming the temperamental metal transformation. Science. 2015;348:968–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Zatorre R, McGill J. Music, the food of neuroscience? Nature. 2005;434:312–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Valet J-P, Meynadier L, Guyodo Y. Geomagnetic dipole strength and reversal rate over the past two million years. Nature. 2005;435:802–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ng HT, Li J, Smith MK, Nguyen P, Cassell A, Han J, et al. Growth of epitaxial nanowires at the junctions of nanowalls. Science. 2003;300:1249.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

1. Lam J. Enterprise Risk Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Chang KC-C, Wang W, Chen L, Ellis CA, Hsu C-H, Tsoi AC, et al., editors. Advances in Web and Network Technologies, and Information Management: APWeb/WAIM 2007 International Workshops: DBMAN 2007, WebETrends 2007, PAIS 2007 and ASWAN 2007, Huang Shan, China, June 16-18, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Xu L, Lin W, Kuo C-CJ. Metrics Fusion. In: Lin W, Kuo C-CJ, editors. Visual Quality Assessment by Machine Learning. Singapore: Springer; 2015. p. 93–122.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries.

Blog post

1. O`Callaghan J. Measuring Distances To Stars Just Got A Whole Lot Easier Thanks To This “Stellar Twin” Trick [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/measuring-distances-stars-just-got-whole-lot-easier-thanks-stellar-twin-trick/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

1. Government Accountability Office. Diploma Mills: Federal Employees Have Obtained Degrees from Diploma Mills and Other Unaccredited Schools, Some at Government Expense. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 May. Report No.: GAO-04-771T.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Webster WP. The Influence of Philanthropy and Administrative Decision-making Models on a Liberal Arts College’s Strategic Planning Process: A Case Study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2014.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

1. Baker P, Shear MD. President Shifts Rationale For Firing F.B.I. Director, Calling Him a ‘Showboat.’ New York Times. 2017 May 11;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries
Abbreviation	Int. J. Diabetes Dev. Ctries
ISSN (print)	0973-3930
ISSN (online)	1998-3832
Scope	Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Internal Medicine